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Internet of Things Controlled Reconfigurable Antenna for RF Harvesting Defence Science Journal, Vol. 68, No. 6, November 2018, pp. 566-571, DOI : 10.14429/dsj.68.12669 2018, DESIDOC Internet of Things Controlled Reconfigurable Antenna for RF Harvesting V. Arun* and L.R. Karl Marx# *Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Anna University Regional Campus, Madurai - 625 019, India #Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai - 625 019, India *E-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT Internet of Things (IoT) controlled a reconfigurable antenna with PIN diode switch for modern wireless communication is designed and implemented. Direct contact of biasing network with the antenna is eliminated and the switching unit is manipulated through IoT method. The proposed antenna has ring structures, in which the outer ring connects the inner ring structure through a PIN diode switch. The dimension of the proposed antenna is reported as 50 mm × 50 mm and its prototype has been made-up on epoxy-Fr4 substrate with 1.6 mm thickness. This antenna setup is made to reconfigurable in four bands (4.5 GHz, 3.5 GHz, 2.4 GHz, and 1.8 GHz) through switching provided by IoT device (NodeMCU). The antenna has a good return loss greater than -10dB.In switching state 2 the antenna has a return loss of -30 dB peak is attained at 3.4 GHz of operating frequency. Similarly the gain response of antenna is good in its operating bands of all switching states and obtained a maximum gain of 2.7 dB in 3.5 GHz. Bidirectional radiation pattern is obtained in all switching states of the antenna. Keywords: Reconfigurable antenna; Internet of Things antenna; PIN diode switching antenna; Frequency reconfiguration; RF Harvesting NomeNClatuRe of the Antenna can be controlled by programming the Area of the ring structure a microcontroller9. The RF Energy harvesting using the Antenna frequency F reconfigurable antenna is an uptrend research area. In addition FR4substrate thickness h to that energy harvesting this micro controller programmed ε Relative permittivity r antenna can auto fit to the remote location for the RF Energy 5,10 Resonant frequency fr harvesting persistence . Dual tone RF harvesting antenna is discussed; it harvests in GSM and UMTSb and. But it’s bulky 1. INTRoDuCTIoN in size due to Yagi antenna array11. In these existing techniques Modern communication devices are supported by the controlling of antenna and switching should done with a more than one service and are extensively must for today’s manual connectivity to micro-controller. The IoT controlled communication1. Reconfigurable antenna is a perfect entrant to Reconfigurable antenna eliminates the human assistance and meet such demand in today’s communication. Reconfigurable function the antenna switching. antennas are categories based on: Polarisation reconfigurable2, This paper presents the NodeMCU (ESP8266) as a device pattern reconfigurable3, and frequency reconfigurable4. This to achieve the IoT controlled reconfigurable antenna. Also it is reconfigurability is achieved by altering the physical structure employed as a switching element in the PIN Diode. of the antenna that is by connecting or disconnecting the radiating elements of antenna structure5. Various switching 2. DeSIGN PRoCeDuRe oF RING ANTeNNA techniques are employed for reconfiguration that are provided The basic shapes of microstrip patch antennas are found to by devices such as PIN diode, varactor diode, MEMS switched be rectangular15, triangular and circular. Among these circular/ and photoconductive switches6. Reconfigurable antenna annular ring shape antenna is analysed and found to be simple design with PIN diode and varactor diode requires external and better with respect to multiband frequency operation and in cable connection to provide DC bias to the lumped elements7. placement of feed point16. The Antenna has simple monopole Though the MEMS switches provides high isolation between ring structure that is fed by microstrip feed line technique with the lumped elements and DC biasing circuitry, the switching length of 11 mm and width 4 mm. It consists of three layers: speed is very low compared to other switching mechanism8. The upper radiation patch, the inner substrate that is made up Micro-controller switching mechanism makes more time of epoxy-FR4 material of thickness 1.6 mm and the bottom efficient without any human hindrance. The reconfigurability ground plane. The upper and bottom layer of antenna is made up of copper material of thickness 0.04 mm. The inner and Received : 05 February 2018, Revised : 06 September 2018 outer diameter of the first ring is 34 mm and 38 mm and the Accepted : 10 October 2018, Online published : 31 October 2018 566 ARUN & MARx : INTERNET OF THINGS CONTROllED RECONFIGURABlE ANTENNA FOR RF Harvesting second ring is 22 mm and 26 mm, respectively. Both the rings The prototype model testing is made with Vector Network are connected in the upper side with a square patch of 4 mm × Analyser (VNA) of 0 - 18 GHz. 4 mm. The antenna ground is taken to be 50 mm × 50 mm to The equivalent circuit of the ring antenna will consist of allow radiation above and below the substrate is described in lumped values of ground, PIN diode and radiating element of the Table 1. ring patch structure. This combined element of ring shaped antenna consists of parallel and series combination of RLC Table 1. Details of length and width of the antenna elements. At ON state of this antenna’s reconfigurable switching Ring antenna (Parameters) Dimension (mm) process the capacitance of respective PIN diodes (D1, D2) are Patch length 50 getting cancelled. Patch width 50 3. IoT SWITCHING Outer ring diameter 38 Switching for this antenna is provided by PIN Diode which Inner ring diameter 26 is controlled by NodeMCU unit as like the micro-controller Centre patch diameter 10 switching device3. The block diagram for IoT based switching Feed length 11 of Ring Antenna with the help of PIN Diode switches is shown Feed width 4 in the Fig. 3. The NodeMCU switches the Diodes D1 and D2 as per the software programmed in it. Ground plane length 50 The Biasing voltage from the NodeMCU can switch on and Ground plane width 50 off the D1 and D2 PIN diodes. Based on the diode switching of FR4 Substrate thickness 1.6 The antenna is designed with the help of circular patch antenna dimension equation as follows12. F a = (1) 1 2hFΠ 2 1++ ln 1.7726 Πε Fh2 r 8.791*109 F = (2) f ε (a) (b) rr Figure 1. Antenna layout: (a) Top view and (b) Bottom view (all dimensions are in mm). where a is area of the ring structure and F is antenna frequency. The substrate FR4 thickness and relative permitivity is denoted as h and ε correspondingly. After r including the fringing effect of the circular patch antenna, the effective radius (ae) of the patch antenna is derived from the Eqn. (3) as follows, 1 2haΠ 2 a =+1 ln+ 1.7726 (3) e Πε ah2 r With the assistance of Eqn. (3) the resonant frequency (fr) of the antenna is derived as per the Eqn. (4) (a) (b) 1.8412ν 0 Figure 2. Prototype design of ring antenna with PIN diodes D1 and (f ) = (4) D2 (a) Front view (b) Back view. r 110 2Πεa er The outer ring patch is connected to the inner ring patch with PIN diode D1 and the inner ring is in contact with the center circular patch with PIN Diode D2. Here in this proposed work SOD323 PIN diodes are used, which provides switching to the reconfigurable antenna. The antenna is simulated using HFSS simulator tool and the switching is provided using lumped RlC boundary. The detail Figure 3. Block diagram of IoT based reconfigurable ring layout structure of antenna is as shown in the Fig. 1. antenna. 567 Def. SCI. J., VOl. 68, NO. 6, november 2018 ON and OFF, the flow of RF signal through the Ring Antenna is varied and the different band of operating frequencies can be achieved. The NodeMCU unit itself consists of WiFi based connectivity with the Internet. This combined reconfigurable antenna and NodeMCU unit control, change of program and monitor through World Wide Web. The prototype model of PIN diode embedded Reconfigurable Ring shaped antenna is connected with the IoT device (NodeMCU) is as shown in above Fig. 4. FREquency (GHz) (a) FREquency (GHz) Figure 4. IoT device connected with the ring antenna. (b) Figure 5. Measured and simulated return loss: (a) state 1 and 4. ReSulTS AND DISCuSSIoN (b) state 2. The proposed IoT-based reconfigurable antenna is designed and validated using HFSS software. In the experimental measurement PIN diodes used as a switching element and the Prototype antenna results are obtained with VNA. When the D1 and D2 is in off state the antenna operates in the frequency band of 2 GHz to 5 GHz and suitably providing peak response (fp) in 4.5 GHz frequency range, this is considered as a state ‘0’ of the antenna and the results are as shown in the Fig. 5(a). In the state ‘1’, the D1 is in on condition while the D2 is remains off condition, and the obtained frequency range of 2 GHz to 3.7 GHz and concentrates on 3.5 GHz band is as shown in Fig. 5(b). As shown in the Fig. 6(a) the return loss results for stage FREquency (GHz) 3, where the diodes D1 and D2 is in OFF and ON conditions (a) respectively. Here in this state the operating frequency ranges from 1.8 GHz to 3.4 GHz, and it focuses the 2.4 GHz Band. In state 4 both the diodes are in ON condition and the results as shown in Fig.
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